Assessing Public Opinion on CRISPR-Cas9: Combining Crowdsourcing and Deep Learning.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9-based gene editing method has opened unprecedented new potential for biological and medical engineering, sparking a growing public debate on both the potential and dangers of CRISPR applications. Given the speed of technology development and the almost instantaneous global spread of news, it is important to follow evolving debates without much delay and in sufficient detail, as certain events may have a major long-term impact on public opinion and later influence policy decisions.

Objective

Social media networks such as Twitter have shown to be major drivers of news dissemination and public discourse. They provide a vast amount of semistructured data in almost real-time and give direct access to the content of the conversations. We

SUBMITTER: Muller M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7490675 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature